Author: Geraint Evans

Introduction The aim of my artefact is to develop a series of student-led seminars for the forthcoming academic year (2021/22) on the subject of ‘Art and Social Justice’ for the MA Fine Art Painting course at Camberwell College of Arts, with a particular focus on painting. I am interested in how notions of diversity, marginalisation… Continue reading Artefact – Art and Social Justice: A Series of Student Led Seminars for MA Fine Art Painting

When I was studying for my PG Cert qualification in 2008, one of the tasks required me to reflect on an aspect of my teaching practice that needed development. As it happened, I had recently led a group crit with students from the MA Fine Art and Performance pathways at Wimbledon where everything that could… Continue reading Room of Silence

Aaron J. Hahn Tapper article ‘A Pedagogy of Social Justice Education: Social Identity Theory, Intersectionality, and Empowerment’ explores the idea of social justice education, using his own experience of a US-based intergroup educational organization, which he founded in 2003. Tapper’s proposition is underpinned by the ideas Paulo Freire and the fundamental argument that students achieve… Continue reading A Pedagogy of Social Justice Education

I have always recommended the Shades of Noir website to my students but, to be honest, I have never used it directly as a teaching resource. Browsing the site, I realise that there are a wide range of articles, journals, bibliographies, interviews etc. to draw upon. I read an interview with Neil Rumming on the… Continue reading Shades of Noir

Although I have been aware of the attainment gap between different ethnic and socio-economic groups in higher education for some time, reading the differential again in the report ‘Retention and Attainment in the Disciplines; Art and Design’ by Terry Finnigan and Aisha Richards reminded me of the importance of doing this course. Some of the… Continue reading Retention and Attainment

Josephine Kwhal discusses unconscious bias in her UCU Witness film (2016). It is a short video, but her point is well made: with the plethora of initiatives, policies and race equality charter marks designed to address racism in Universities, what will it take for “the unconscious to become conscious”. Institutions, she says, have consciously made… Continue reading Unconscious bias

One of the most inspiring things about teaching is that you learn so much from your students. Whilst reading UAL student Aalimah’s account of a discussion of her work with her tutor and fellow students, in SoN’s The Little Book of Big Case Studies: Faith (04.07.2017), I was struck by how disinterested they seemed to… Continue reading Safe Spaces

Stimulus Paper – Craig Calhoun: Religion, the public sphere and higher education; Tariq Modood: ‘We don’t do God’? the changing nature of public religion When I was growing up in South Wales in the 1970s/80s, I regularly attended the local Anglican church. My father had been raised as a Welsh Congregationalist but had been confirmed… Continue reading Religion in Britain

Many of our students are interested in the notion of the spiritual in art. This can be linked to questions of the contemporary sublime or transcendence, associated with the work of artists such as Mark Rothko or James Turrell. For some, art making is thought of as a meditative practice, a process of emptying out,… Continue reading On Faith, Contemporary Art and Pedagogy

The Reith Lectures 2016 All faith is false; all faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own – Sir Richard Francis Burton Kwame Anthony Appiah cites the words of Sir Richard Francis Burton, the nineteenth century British explorer and scholar, when… Continue reading Kwame Anthony Appiah: Mistaken Identities